Eyes to see

Set against unbound wilderness, Eyes to see embarks on a contemplative journey through identity, culture, and Indigenous knowledge systems, revealing manifold expressions of queerness within the natural world. Through the lived experience of Dr Yvette Abrahams, the film follows how a 2018 car accident fundamentally alters her relationship to body and thought, opening a shift away from her former life and toward a calling as a traditional healer. Over years of recovery, she undergoes a re-learning of perception, where healing unfolds as a decolonisation of knowledge itself, no longer fixed in colonial abstraction, but lived, sensed, and relational. Within this transformation, identity emerges as a continuum—where gender and sexuality are not fixed but fluid, and understood as embedded in land, species, and survival systems beyond colonial categorisation. Between vignettes, water and wilderness interweave as a living archive and ritual space, holding memory, presence, and transformation. Eyes to see invites viewers into nature’s rhythm, fostering deep introspection, attunement, and self-discovery within expanded ways of seeing.